William Hammill's Digital Past Blog

When digitizing historical documents, one of the greatest challenges is taking a large amount of information and enabling users to search through hundreds of years of text. This can create a difficult task of creating usable online archival documents. A problem that I have seen recently involves readings for classes that are in a PDF […]

I found the essay written by Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig to be a bit long winded in regards to the points they were discussing. However, I did pick out one very significant segment they wrote: Flexibility transforms the experience of consuming history, but digital media—because of their openness and diversity—also alters the conditions and circumstances […]